Name: Microsoft .NET platform
Rating: 4.7 (171 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is Microsoft .NET platform?

Microsoft .NET platform is a software framework that provides a comprehensive environment for building, deploying, and running applications across desktops, servers, and mobile devices. The software supports multiple programming languages and libraries, enabling developers to create web, desktop, cloud, gaming, and IoT applications. It offers features such as a common runtime, class libraries, security, and interoperability with languages including C#, F#, and Visual Basic. The platform addresses business needs related to scalable application development, code reuse, and integration with various services and data sources, allowing organizations to streamline development processes and enhance application performance within diverse operating environments.

Overall experience with Microsoft .NET platform

Business Process Automation & IA (Associate Director)

<50M USD, Banking

FAVORABLE

“Microsoft .NET - One of the best frameworks for developers and a must have in the MS world”

5.0

Jul 10, 2024

Our team mostly works with Windows machines, PowerShell and the Microsoft environment, hence the .NET platform is a great extension for us to have. Microsoft invests a lot into their ecosystem with M365, Graph API and Azure cloud based offerings. We find it very useful and handy to integrate the MS products with .NET and use it for web and desktop app development.

IT Manager

50M - 250M USD, Consumer Goods

CRITICAL

“Great tool for enterprise solution. All in one user interface to dev.”

3.0

Apr 15, 2021

Is a stable producto. You can develop easily. The framework have a lot of functionality for enterprise solutions. Easy to deploy

About Company

Company Description

Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

1975

Head office location

Redmond, Washington, United States

Number of employees

10000+

Annual Revenue

30B+ USD

Website

https://microsoft.com

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Performance of Microsoft .NET platform Across Market Features

Microsoft .NET platform Likes & Dislikes

large documentation and user base, user community rich ecosystem of both, commercial and open source libraries usage of .NET is partially even possible on Linux nowadays. large framework of libraries with continuous improvements

Upgrading Reliabilty Great Comunity

It has built-in security feature. It promotes interoperability between languages. Cross-platform development. Seamlessly integrates with Windows services and feature's.

- good in-person support is hard to find - debugging and error root cause analysis - exception detail description can be minimalistic and hard to analyze which can make root cause analysis difficult

Minimum requirements is high Less flexible to rapid and light web deployment than other tools Cost for big teams

Steep learning curve. Higher resource consumption. The cost of the license.

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<50M USD

Banking

Review Source

Microsoft .NET - One of the best frameworks for developers and a must have in the MS world

Associate

10B+ USD

Finance (non-banking)

Review of Microsoft .NET platform

4.0

Mar 1, 2024

Microsoft .NET Platform supports multiple languages, which helps us to choose the ones that is best for our needs, such as C#, F#, orVB.NET. Through this we can develop and create applications that runs on various platforms, like Windows, Linux and macOS. It has robust set of class libraries, which simplifies our common tasks and accelerates the development. It supports asynchronous programming, which enhances application responsiveness and performance.

SENIOR ENGINEER

Gov't/PS/Ed

Education

Great platform but bloated

Feb 17, 2024

Overall .Net platform is probably the most complete framework out of the box.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Software

Be it a small or big project, .NET has you covered

Jan 26, 2024

.NET is exceptional, it's robust, performant and so easy to develop with

Sr. Software Developer

1B-10B USD

Manufacturing

We can create almost anything with Microsoft .NET platform

Nov 2, 2023

I have 5.3 years of full-stack experience with the.NET platform, which is an open-source platform for developing web, mobile, and desktop applications that run on any operating system. It has the best Visual Studio IDE, as well as many libraries and APIs for scalability. I have used the C# and VB.net languages and multiple web frameworks. The experience of creating a web application was enjoyable.